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奥里森·斯威特·马登:向前进·摘录 402
奥里森·斯威特·马登《向前进》· Pushing to the Front · 领导
If you ask one of them to state his aim and purpose in life, he will say: "I hardly know yet for what I am best adapted, but I am a thorough believer in genuine hard work, and I am determined to dig early and late all my life, and I know I shall come across something--either gold, silver, or at least iron." I say most emphatically, no. Would an intelligent man dig up a whole continent to find its veins of silver and gold? The man who is forever looking about to see what he can find never finds anything. If we look for nothing in particular, we find just that and no more. We find what we seek with all our heart. The bee is not the only insect that visits the flower, but it is the only one that carries honey away. It matters not how rich the materials we have gleaned from the years of our study and toil in youth, if we go out into life with no well-defined idea of our future work, there is no happy conjunction of circumstances that will arrange them into an imposing structure, and give it magnificent proportions.
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白话
如果你问这种人的人生目标,他会说:“我还不清楚自己最适合什么,但我相信埋头苦干,决心从早挖到晚,总会挖到点什么——金、银,至少铁吧。”作者坚决反对:聪明人不会为了找银矿金矿把整块大陆翻个遍。永远四处找“能发现什么”的人,什么也发现不了;找得笼统,得到的也笼统。我们只会找到自己全心寻找的东西。蜜蜂不是唯一访花的昆虫,却是唯一带走花蜜的。年轻时学得再多、攒得再厚,若踏入社会时对未来工作没有明确想法,再好的机遇也不会自动把这些材料搭成宏伟建筑。先定方向,再积累。
上下文
马登在《奋力向前》中批评“先埋头苦干、目标以后再说”的流行心态,强调目标先于努力。
今日一问
你现在的努力有明确目标吗?如果没有,本周能写下哪个具体方向?
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